origin

Origin is the start, center or beginning of something or the place where a person comes from.

(noun)

  1. An exmaple of origin is when an idea comes to you when you sleep.
  2. An example of origin is the ground where oil comes from.
  3. An example of origin is your ethnic background.

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See origin in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

  1. a coming into existence or use; beginning
  2. parentage; birth; lineage
  3. that in which something has its beginning; source; root; cause
  4. Anat. the less movable of the two points of attachment of a muscle, usually the end attached to the more rigid part of the skeleton
  5. Math.
    1. in a system of Cartesian coordinates, the point at which the axes intersect; base point where the abscissa and ordinate equal zero
    2. any zero reference point from which measurement begins

Origin: ME origyne < MFr origine < L origo (gen. originis) < oriri, to rise: see orient

See origin in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. The point at which something comes into existence or from which it derives or is derived.
  2. Ancestry: “We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try” (James Baldwin).
  3. The fact of originating; rise or derivation: The rumor had its origin in an impulsive remark.
  4. Anatomy The point of attachment of a muscle that remains relatively fixed during contraction.
  5. Mathematics The point of intersection of coordinate axes, as in the Cartesian coordinate system.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English origine, ancestry

Origin: , from Latin orīgō, orīgin-

Origin: , from orīrī, to arise, be born; see er-1 in Indo-European roots

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